Sirius, Yoshimi

Ringworld

Larry Niven

Chapter 22

Teela would trust anybody. She would inevitably seek help or comfort from the first stranger to come along. And she would be perfectly safe in doing so.

Her escort was unusual.

He was a hero. You could tell. You didn't need to see him fighting dragons. You need only see the muscles, the height, the black metal sword. The strong features, uncannily like the wire-sculpture face in the castle called Heaven. The courteous way he talked to Prill, apparently without realizing that she was of the opposite sex. Because she was another man's woman?

He was clean-shaven. No, that was improbable. More likely he was half Engineer. His hair was long and ash blond and not too clean, and the hairline shaped a noble brow. Around his waist was a kind of kirtle, the skin of some animal.

"He fed me," Teela said. "He took care of me. Four men tried to jump us yesterday, and he fought them off with just his sword! And he's learned a lot of Interworld in just a couple of days."

"Has he?"

"He's had a lot of practice with languages."

"This was the most unkindest cut of all."

"What?"

"Never mind. Go on."

"He's old, Louis. He got a massive dose of something like boosterspice, long ago. He says he took it from an evil magician. He's so old that his grandparents remembered the Fall of the Cities.








http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/09/he-has-always-pressed-it-and-he-always.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess at 9:34 PM

Saturday, September 27, 2014

"He has always pressed it, and he always will."

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/19/2006 9:21 PM
I don’t know what all this means, but the 33 and the Apollo 11 caught my attention. I have also been thinking lately about a “memory” I have of Sirius. I asked Homer Burgess one time when I was a kid and I was on their farm in Antlers what was the meaning of the expression about “dog days of summer.” He told me it had something to do with rattlesnakes and you always needed to have a dog with you when you were in the woods during the summer, something about the rattlesnakes could not see during that time. Later I read that it had something to do with the Sirius star, also known as the Dog Star” being present in the sky during the summer. As I was writing this, I also remember the scene from “The Truman Show” with the Sirius star-lamp.

[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 9:34 PM Saturday, September 27, 2014 ]








https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/god-debunked-in-one-image-illustrating.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess at 4:27 PM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

Sunday, July 21, 2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/america-in-1915/462360/

The Atlantic

America in 1915: Long Hours, Crowded Houses, Death by Trolley

There were all sorts of tech amenities that might seem quotidian today that were rarities in 1915. Thirty percent of the country had a telephone. Less than 20 percent had a stove. Very few people owned a refrigerator, and almost nobody owned a radio. Within 60 years, clothes washers, dryers, air-conditioning, and television sets would all be household staples, but in 1915 they were nowhere to be seen. Instead, the most popular media product of the time might have been the player pianos or the phonograph.

[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 4:27 PM Sunday, July 21, 2019 ]








https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius

Sirius

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sirius (designated α Canis Majoris (Latinized to Alpha Canis Majoris, abbreviated Alpha CMa, α CMa)) is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word Seirios "glowing" or "scorching."

Sirius is known colloquially as the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (the Greater Dog). The heliacal rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, the star marked winter and was an important reference for their navigation around the Pacific Ocean.

Observational history

The brightest star in the night sky, Sirius is recorded in some of the earliest astronomical records. Its displacement from the ecliptic causes its heliacal rising to be remarkably regular compared to other stars, with a period of almost exactly 365.25 days holding it constant relative to the solar year. This rising occurs at Cairo on 19 July (Julian), placing it just prior to the summer solstice and the onset of the annual flooding of the Nile during antiquity. Owing to the flood's own irregularity, the extreme precision of the star's return made it important to the ancient Egyptians, who worshipped it as the goddess Sopdet, guarantor of the fertility of their land. The Egyptian civil calendar was apparently initiated to have its New Year "Mesori" coincide with the appearance of Sirius, although its lack of leap years meant that this congruence only held for four years until its date began to wander backwards through the months. The Egyptians continued to note the times of Sirius's annual return, which may have led them to the discovery of the 1460-year Sothic cycle and influenced the development of the Julian and Alexandrian calendars.

The ancient Greeks observed that the appearance of Sirius heralded the hot and dry summer and feared that it caused plants to wilt, men to weaken, and women to become aroused. Due to its brightness, Sirius would have been seen to twinkle more in the unsettled weather conditions of early summer. To Greek observers, this signified certain emanations which caused its malignant influence. Anyone suffering its effects was said to be "star-struck". It was described as "burning" or "flaming" in literature. The season following the star's reappearance came to be known as the "dog days". The inhabitants of the island of Ceos in the Aegean Sea would offer sacrifices to Sirius and Zeus to bring cooling breezes and would await the reappearance of the star in summer. If it rose clear, it would portend good fortune; if it was misty or faint then it foretold (or emanated) pestilence. Coins retrieved from the island from the 3rd century BC feature dogs or stars with emanating rays, highlighting Sirius's importance. The Romans celebrated the heliacal setting of Sirius around April 25, sacrificing a dog, along with incense, wine, and a sheep, to the goddess Robigo so that the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year.








https://www.psychologytoday.com/za/blog/how-risky-is-it-really/201212/the-world-wont-end-and-neither-will-superstitions?amp

Psychology Today

David Ropeik

How Risky Is It, Really?

The World Won't End and Neither Will Superstitions

We look for omens and clues that give us a sense of control over the future.

Posted Dec 11, 2012

They’re all about the same thing…finding some way of extracting meanings that give us a sense of control over the uncontrollable








http://vega.lpl.arizona.edu/sirius/A5.html

Discovering Sirius B

In 1844 the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel noticed small odd irregularities in the proper motions of the two bright stars, Sirius and Procyon. They did not move uniformly in a straight line, as expected relative to other stars in the sky, but rather seemed to move with irregular motions which seemed to repeat every fifty years. Bessel attributed these motions to the presence of unseen massive companions whose orbital motion produced the irregularities. Binary stars were well known at the time but until Bessel’s discovery it was always possible to identify both stars in a system.

The dark star associated with Sirius was accidentally discovered on the evening of January 31, 1862 in Cambridgeport Massachusetts. Alvan Graham Clark and his father Alvan Clark, two members of the famous family of nineteenth century telescope makers, were testing the lens for an 18 ½-inch telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. The Clarks were not aware of the significance of their discovery at the time but did report it to George Phillips Bond, Director of the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge Massachusetts. Using the Harvard’s 15-inch “Great Refractor” Bond succeeded in observing the small companion exactly one week later. Bond immediately recognized the significance of the discovery and promptly published the news in scientific papers in the US and in Europe.

The previously unknown part of the discovery of companion, Sirius B, involves Europe’s most famous astronomer at the time, Urbain J. J. Le Verrier. In 1846 Le Verrier had predicted the position of Neptune, and the new planet promptly discovered in Berlin later that same year. Le Verrier was also aware of the significance of Sirius’ dark star and conducted his own search for it in January 1862. The story also involves the development of the first reflecting telescope to a use metal-on-glass primary mirror. This revolutionary telescope, an 80-cm reflector, had been developed by Léon Foucault and went into service at the Paris Observatory in January 1862.

The new companion of Sirius turned out to be a remarkably faint yet massive star.








https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner

Charles Sumner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Proposal and ratification

See also: Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

Crafting the amendment

Radical Republicans led by Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner and Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens sought a more expansive version of the amendment. On February 8, 1864, Sumner submitted a constitutional amendment stating:

All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave; and the Congress shall have power to make all laws necessary and proper to carry this declaration into effect everywhere in the United States.



https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Passes_the_Thirteenth_Amendment.htm

United States Senate

The Senate Passes the Thirteenth Amendment

April 8, 1864

The 2012 film Lincoln told the story of President Abraham Lincoln and the final month of debate over the Thirteenth Amendment, leading to its passage by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865. What the film did not portray, however, was the Senate’s part of that story.

While Lincoln waited until late 1864 to publicly support an abolition amendment (while quietly supporting it behind the scenes), Radical Republicans like Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner and Ohio representative James Ashley called for such action in 1863. Sumner and his allies applauded Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, but they believed the wartime measure did not go far enough. Instead, they demanded what they termed a “constitutional guarantee” of “perpetual freedom.” Such debates—barely hinted at in the movie—shaped the language of the amendment and influenced an evolving definition of equality.

In late 1863 Sumner became chairman of a new committee on slavery, where he hoped to consider all proposals for abolition. On February 8, 1864, he introduced his own constitutional amendment, asking that it be referred to his committee. Judiciary Committee chairman Lyman Trumbull objected, insisting instead that his committee must consider such proposals. The Senate sided with Trumbull. Sumner’s radical views stirred action, but they also made enemies. “If I could cut the throats of about half a dozen senators,” confessed William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, “Sumner would be the first victim.” Many supporters of an abolition amendment feared that any association with Sumner could undermine success.

By January of 1864 the Senate Judiciary Committee was debating and drafting the amendment. Sumner’s proposal for absolute “equality before the law” was rejected. Making all persons “equal before the law,” argued one senator, might lead to dangerous consequences, such as providing voting rights to women. Instead, the committee approved more modest language that echoed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”

On February 10, 1864, Trumbull reported the amendment out of committee and full Senate debate began. Fears of race-mixing and social upheaval—issues that figured prominently in the later House debate—were largely absent. Rather, senators argued over the constitutionality of uncompensated emancipation, the nature of federalism, and the propriety of adopting the first constitutional amendment in 60 years. A few radicals sought ways to empower the freedmen with civil and economic rights, but most senators agreed that abolition alone was the goal. “We give the [black man] no right except his freedom,” explained Missouri senator John Henderson. “[We] leave the rest to the states.”

On April 8, 1864, the Senate took the first crucial step towards the constitutional abolition of slavery. Before a packed gallery, a strong coalition of 30 Republicans, four border-state Democrats, and four Union Democrats joined forces to pass the amendment 38 to 6. In the months that followed, two test votes failed in the House and the amendment was sidelined by the national election. Then, in December, representatives convened a lame duck session to renew the debate. This set the stage for action in January of 1865 by the newly reelected Abraham Lincoln.








From 1/31/1862 ( ) To 2/8/1864 ( ) is 738 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 is 738 days



From 4/26/1931 ( George Herbert Mead dead ) To 5/3/1933 ( James Brown ) is 738 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 is 738 days



Other posts by me includes: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-ignorance-of-man.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/sirius.html


http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/metamorphosis-24923/

tv.com

Star Trek Season 2 Episode 9

Metamorphosis

Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC

When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.

AIRED: 11/10/67





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead

George Herbert Mead

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931)





https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/weinberg/facts/

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Sheldon Glashow

Abdus Salam

Steven Weinberg

Facts

Steven Weinberg

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Born: 3 May 1933





https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113768/bio

IMDb

James Brown

Biography

Born May 3, 1933 in Barnwell, South Carolina, USA

Died December 25, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (pneumonia)

Birth Name James Joseph Brown





album: "Out Of Sight" (1964)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jamesbrown/igotyouifeelgood.html

AZ

James Brown

"I Got You (I Feel Good)"

Wo! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would, now
So good, so good, I got you

Wo! I feel nice, like sugar and spice
I feel nice, like sugar and spice
So nice, so nice, I got you

[Sax, two licks to bridge]

When I hold you in my arms
I know that I can do no wrong
and when I hold you in my arms
My love won't do you no harm

and I feel nice, like sugar and spice
I feel nice, like sugar and spice
So nice, so nice, I got you

[Sax, two licks to bridge]

When I hold you in my arms
I know that I can't do no wrong
and when I hold you in my arms
My love can't do me no harm

and I feel nice, like sugar and spice
I feel nice, like sugar and spice
So nice, so nice, well I got you

Wo! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would








https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/july-4-2033.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:38 PM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.

Sunday, July 14, 2019

July 4, 2033

The Flaming Lips

"Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1"

Her name is Yoshimi

[ excert ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:38 PM Sunday, July 14, 2019 ]



- posted by Kerry Burgess 3:30 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 24 July 2019